Most big eels reported to us fall to legering tactics in the dead of night, but Dan Bouskila landed this 6lb 4oz whacker on the float during an evening session.
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He was targeting a southern gravel pit where he’d heard tales of large fish, and on previous sessions to the venue he’d noticed eruptions of bubbles rising to the surface – which he took as a sure sign of an eel being in the vicinity.
His plan was to walk the lake, looking for heavy bubbling, and then drop a large lobworm right on the fish. He did this using a centrepin reel and a float-leger set-up, with a link leger holding a half-ounce flat pear to take his hookbait to the bottom. Dan added a fluorocarbon leader for extra security.
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It took three sessions for the tactic to pay off, and when it did, Dan was amazed to hook a fish just
30 seconds after casting out.
The powerful specimen gave him a real ‘tug- of-war’ all the way to the net, and Dan said he felt incredibly lucky to have landed such a fish after just a few sessions, knowing full well how much of a waiting game big eels generally demand.
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